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Toowong (QLD) Team

 

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday April 815th , 2025 from 1030-1200

After a hectic Monday attending the memorial service of Lily's husband Joseph Tam, I start a new week of regular street outreach to day with Johnny at Toowong. It was a fruitful team work again with intermittent rain, but not affecting our opportunities of outreach. The leading of the Holy Spirit was apparent leading me to approach someone who had rejected Johnny but God created another window opportunity and moved me to head up to approach that guy once again and eventually achieving His purpose. Please refer details in Battle Log below: -

1) An USA exchange student who claimed to be Christian but only has 90% certain to go to heaven. Half explained and conversation was cut short by bus arrival.

2) Then a Kiwi migrant of non religious background but was open and receptive to the gospel message.

3) Rejected by a young lady who was busy in texting.

4) Next I was led to a crosse breed girl with Mum a Chinese , She is non religious but was totally open to the gospel message admitting everyone including herself need Jesus to cleanse our imperfection in our sin corrupted human nature.

5) Then an Indian lady not mind chatting but pardon as she needed to make a call to deal with some urgent matter.

6) Next is Lee from Penang who is non religious. Again he find no fault in the gospel message that as long as we are not perfect we need a Savior like Jesus.

7) Allan who rejected Johnny may be lacking interest in religious matter. But I observed he just missed his bus and felt a bit pissed off. The Spirit instantly gave me the flash of thought that, he would have missed another opportunities to hear the gospel and I was given this privilege to be a messenger to do this. So I introduced myself expressing exactly this same thought which successfully attracted his attention and interest to see what he would have missed. The timing was perfect and I finished the full gospel sharing convincing him don't miss the chance of not getting disqualified for the Kingdom of God and be deprived of the eternal life offered by Jesus through His sacrificial death. What a turn around of the whole situation by the divine power and guidance of God through the work of the Holy Spirit.

8 ) Then I seldom approach two persons Claire and Olivia together who are both UQ and two fair dinkum Aussie. I used these slang to show them that they are not yet dinkum enough to be called Aussie, and like wise they can become a fair dinkum Christian accepting Jesus through the gospel message. They were happy to ponder upon this important life issue.

9) Then I was led to a tall guy in red to share him a quick Message of the core of gospel and he appeared very ok and receptive.

10) Lastly, I was led to approach Frank from Ghana who is a Christian but lacking assurance of salvation. I clarified the issue just in time before the bus arrived.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday April 9th , 2025 from 1030-1200

Today was the first day we have advanced our ministry time earlier to 1030-1200. The result was all good. Both of us, Johnny and Hung, got many quality and long conversation. A stand out one was with a Muslim migrant from Afghanistan as elaborated below in Hung's Battle Log.

1) I was led to approach a lady by the name of Tang 鄧from Hong Kong港女. She came at young age to receive high school than Uni education in Australia for almost 11 years. She is non-religious, 無信仰. Yet she was open to the gospel message and accepted the fact that, as long as we, human are imperfect, every one has the need to address the issue of sin that rightly have disqualified us to rejoin the heavenly Kingdom. The only way is to let Jesus to help us accepting Him as our Savior as such the punishment of eternal death meaning forever losing the right to re-connect with God can be written off by Jesus taking over our punishment. And the record of our sin is set to zero the moment we accepted Jesus as our Savior thereby making us a new creation clean and perfectly sin free for regaining the sonship or heavenly citizen ship of God. She was happy to ponder seriously to make her last step of faith to accept Jesus as her Savior.

2) Scott , a local Aussie who was also non religious. The Spirit led us through the similar conversation and he was happy to realize that the meaning of fair dinkum Aussie can also be applied to make him a fair dinkum Christian once he accepted Jesus.

3) Zabi is a refugee migrant from Afghanistan. The Spirit led me to casually chat about our past life journey before entering into gospel sharing. He is a highly educated person with a Master degree in Economic and very perfect English of high proficiency level. His parent also run a good small family business in Afghanistan but all of these were ruined by the Taliban coming into power. As a Muslim, he realizes when a human being are in power, they will very likely be corrupted and be driven to accumulate wealth in the expense of ordinary people. So needless for me to tell him, he readily observed, religion is aimed to make someone a better person but it is never a solution or remedy to make people becoming a perfect or sinless person. Rather people in power either in politics and or religion are all vulnerable to become corrupted and greedy regime trying to stay in power to maximize their monetary gain. It is along this line of reflection that Zabi, an pious Muslim admitted fallen human are beyond redemption and need a Savior to cleanse our sin. We chatted for an hour and say good bye as a cross cultural friend even when we are still two persons of different faiths.

4) Lastly had sometime to chat with a senior person from Guangzhou, whose world view and mindset has been seriously brained wash by communism up bringing. I nevertheless share him the full gospel and handing him a tract.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday April 8th , 2025 from 1030-1200

The decision to advance the Street outreach earlier to 1030 paid off. We spend less transit time to and from Toowong and there is a peak queuing time at 1130 and there are ample people turn up rate at the bus stop. Recap below is my Battle Log

1) I was moved to approach a young man from Beijing 北京 but live at outskirt near Tianjin 天津who came to study IT 電腦. He has a rational mind and appeared receptive to the gospel message.

2) Marley was the next and he declared himself an orthodox Christian but has no assurance of salvation. Yet he was rejoiced to have it clarified.

3) Then Jack is a local Aussie of 3rd year. He is non-religious yet open to the gospel message with good receptiveness.

4) Dario a local Aussie but of Italian original. He is a Psychology student. He is a non Christian but theological in mind and know how use bible to communicate his view point against Christianity. But he could not find loophole in my way of presentation of gospel message and show willingness to pursue Christian faith.

5) Next is Fung 馮 from Guangzhou廣州. He appeared a bit nervous 緊張 to engage conversation with me. But after a rapport building effort he appeared relax and more open to the gospel message，但之後髿馳接受道理，也知有He is also aware of Power to change and promise to pursue Christian Faith.

6) Last but not the least was Marty a local Aussie of the physiotherapy Department. She is non religious as well but the move of the Holy Spirit also led her very open to the gospel message and end up completely receptive to the salvation of Jesus.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday April 2nd, 2025 from 1300-1500

Today was a soaking rainy day. Johnny was sick so I had to start solo again. The rain made people in bad mood, so not a best day for evangelism. Nevertheless, I still managed to get a number of good chats that stood out as recap below: -

1) Daly is a mixed with Chinese Mum and Vietnamese Dad and an UQ student. He is a Christian by family tradition as such he is unclear about redemption by grace through faith and lacking assurance of salvation. But after clarification he showed appreciation by taking a selfie with me.

2) Then had conversations consecutively with Mainlander Chinese who are either migrants and students. They all appeared hesitant to chat but ended up still receptive to the gospel sharing.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday April 1st , 2025 from 1030-1200

Today is the first time I served with Johnny again as a team after his long vacation break. We both were moved to advance our ministry time to 1030 instead of 1330. It helps to avoid the peak traffic before and after the outreach. It also spare us from the high noon scorching heat during summer at the concrete base bus platform. Most importantly, we can outreach to a slightly different group of people who go to UQ in the morning. The people flow seems to be more numerous than then afternoon period. Both of us had many meaningful and long conversation that hopefully will bear ripen fruit in His time. Recap below is the Battle log of Hung: -

1) Daren, an Indonesia born Chinese of Catholic Christian background yet lacking 100% of assurance of salvation. He appreciated my clarification and now confidently declares he has 100% assurance now. He also enlightened me on a query, how come Indonesia the largest Muslim population country has an extraordinary high percentage of 20% Christian ratio. It is because all Chinese do not want to become Muslim , so they all turn out to be either Catholic or protestant Christians.

2) August a Brisbane based young man who is non religious but very open and receptive to the gospel. He admitted no one including himself not perfect and now understand it will lead to eternal separation form God and indefinitely disqualified to be heavenly citizen. I advised him to ponder and make his last step of faith. If he has any query, either look for me here every Tuesday or seek helps from Power to Change.

3) Next was a girl from Shanghai上海姑娘，basically, she felt insecure to chat with stranger on religious matter有不安感 even though she still remained polite to listen to the full gospel .

4) Then i chatted with a UK girl who is non religious, but she was open enough and admitted the gospel is rational model to lead to the conclusion that for human who are imperfect with sin, then we all need the salvation of Jesus as our Savior.

5) Then I caught up with an Indian girl from Deli who studies Computer Science at UQ. Time was too too rush and her English not so good so only a nutshell of the gospel was briefed with a tract.

6) Then caught up with Daisy another Scotland girl from Edinburg. She is non religious but very soft hearted and receptive to the gospel.

7) Then had a medium long chat with a Sri Lankan who was completely open and receptive to the Gospel.

8 ) Hsu許from Taipei,Taiwan台灣，who is non religious 無宗教 but still managed to share the full gospel講完。

9) Last but not the least, I did follow up chat with an elderly from Beijing who had a long chat with Johnny. When Johnny turned to chat with his wife, I caught up with the husband and touch based on some issues on sin and how human in flesh can never deliver ourselves from the bondage of sin.

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

It’s been a busy month.  I’ve just enjoyed going through the photo’s and remembering.  Some of them might seem a bit odd to you, but they have special meaning to me.

 

The one of Daniel and Bobby-Jean praying is special because they instigated a 6 am prayer time while we were in the Philippines.  Of course we were all praying anyway, but it touched me that they would make this extra effort.  We are so dependent on God, and prayer is so vital to everything we do.

 

The one with the green field & trees and the blue sky with the white clouds was taken on our last day in the Philippines, down at the University of the Philippines Dilliman - where we did all our ‘street’ outreach.  And then the one with the thrown away gospel tract in one corner, and then a discarded coin in the other corner - some people don’t realise the value of the treasure they are discarding.

 

Our site at the Oxford A&P Show outreach (29th March, one week after getting back from the Philippines) was between 2 sites both selling jewellery.  3 sites with treasure - 2 selling, and 1 giving away.

 

And then finally, the video.  I don’t think I’m going to be able to attach the video to this report.  If I can successfully upload it to Facebook, I’ll link to it here. <-- (if there is no link, then I haven’t done it yet, or I wasn’t able to upload it).  The video is amazing.  Taken at the Oxford A&P Show.  Daniel and Andy are in gospel chats, when a pipe band comes down the road.  Amazingly, they stop and start playing the classic hymn “Amazing Grace” - I’m not sure if they realised the significance?  But it was a special moment that I caught on video.

 

So, enough commentary on the photos.  What happened this month?  We spent a week or so in the Philippines.  And then the Oxford A&P Show.  In between that, our regular work has been happening.  Street outreaches, online outreaches, and we are continuing to distribute free gospel tracts across NZ via the web store (outside NZ here).

 

While in the Philippines, we spent 2 hours in online outreach, and 4 hours in street outreach.  There was a team of just under 20 from all parts of the world: NZ, Aussie, USA, Indonesia, and Chris from Norway!  Also, many from the Philippines who follow needGod.net via social media came to join us as well.

 

As I reflect, some of the memories are coming back.  I’ll highlight one.  Edson from the USA was a big encouragement to me.  There was a big group of students down in the ‘sunken garden’ and he challenged me to approach them.  He said he would take one side, if I do the other. Big groups can be very tiring, and I was tired!  But since he was keen, I swallowed my fear and just ‘did it’.  Normally with big groups you get people in different places, and 1 person will kill the dynamic so the rest don’t get to hear the gospel.  But that didn’t happen this time.  Instead, the whole group engaged.  Glory to God, it was like a Holy Spirit moment, where I had all their attention for about 10 minutes as I was able to minister the law and the gospel and then work through all the checks to make sure they were really understanding.  Thanks Edson for your boldness that enabled God to minister in that moment!  Glory to God alone.

 

There was much openness among the students, in spite of the intellectual environment that stands against the gospel.

 

I also had a random gospel opportunity on my day off.  I was at the mall with my youngest daughter (she joined me for this trip).  She was getting ice cream, and because the mall was so crowded, we ended up sitting close to a young guy.  He started the conversation, and it just naturally turned into a good gospel chat.  He accepted a gospel of John and a gospel tract in the end.  God is sovereign and uses us where we are at.

 

The Oxford A&P Show was a long hot day.  Plenty of people, but I wasn’t as busy as I normally am at outreaches like this.  Maybe that was God’s grace in knowing I was a bit tired?  Anyway, I still had plenty of chats.  But one in particular stands out in my mind as very special.

 

It was right at the start of the day with two young ladies who go to a local church - one even had a Bible on her sweatshirt.  They weren’t clear on the gospel, and yet they were very engaged in the conversation, so I was able to slow right down and work them through it.  One of the girls in particular seemed deeply impacted.  It was so good to see.  I treasure moments like that, because the gospel is such a treasure to me.  God is amazing, that he would die on a cross like me - it just brings me to tears.  I rest in this grace, and yet I’m driven to get out and share it!

 

Yet, I’m looking forward to a day off tomorrow ;)

 

This month we have Easter coming up.  We normally do a couple of hot cross bun outreaches for Easter, but we’ve decided not to do the hot cross buns this year.  Instead, I’m just going to do regular street outreach.  I guess I’m craving a bit of a ‘normal’ routine.  I’m looking forward to a winter with no ‘special’ outreaches and to recharge for the next year that God brings, if he wills.

 

Please continue to pray for us - we so need it and appreciate it.

 

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Mar 25, 2025 from 1030-1130

It was an overcast day with intermittent sporadic rain and I still have to serve solo waiting for Johnny's back after his recovery from coughing resulted from his overseas vacation trip. I also decided to serve the scheduled street outreach ministry a bit earlier so I can go to have Birthday celebration Yumcha with Ivano for lunch. All these adjustments helped me to have a dry period to serve with rain both before and after my street outreach.

More miraculously, I was forced to park for the first time on the roof at floor 9 at Toowong. God did not just spare me from rain on the street for outreach , also when I had to walk in open air on the roof top for my car. If rain came that time, I will have no where to hide.

The people flow at the bus stop was lesser than the afternoon time. I anyway still got all gospel conversation divine appointments turning out to be all fruitful ones. Recap below is the highlight of them.

1) Gabriel from Filipin is a fresh grad student of Engineer. He migrated to Australia at the age of 6 month, so he is readily almost a fair dinkum Australian now of the age of 19yrs old. He is from a Catholic Family but seldom read and study the Bible. So it was no wonder he failed the test of Assurance of salvation with only 80/90% certainty. He was pleased to hear the clarification from me and was thankful to be able to become a fair dinkum Christian who is saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone.

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2) Next was Miss Zhou周 from Wuhan武漢. She comes to study for Education教育.As a Mainlander, she is the rare ones who is willing and daring to listen to the full gospel. I encourage her to ponder when back home to accept Jesus, and get in touch with Power to Point people is she still have any faith related questions,

3) Daniel has a complicated identity. He is of Italian origin but dual Nationality of Aussie and New Caledonian. He is of Catholic background as well and his understanding of faith is also unclear but it was a pity his bus came and we could only leave it to other time in our next divine encounter.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday March 26th, 2025 from 1300-1500

Today I started first with Johnny joining me a bit later. Praised and thanked God that he has recovered from his coughing. Both had some long conversation and towards the end, God led two Muslim people to have a long chat with us hopefully with some impactful changes to their mind set about salvation by grace through face but not by works.

1) Mr Qiang強from Shanghai上海, claimed we chatted with him many times before多次. But his understanding again has faded as such I simply shared once again the full gospel message with him until his wife came back to reunited with him for the bus.

2) Next was a lady from Hangzhou杭州 coming to Australia to visit her daughter staying to live in Australia after her Uni study. Good rapport was built and full gospel was shared.

3) Then I was led to chat with an Indian girl who is a medical student of UQ doing practicum at Sunnybank Private Hospital. Only nutshell of gospel was shared.

4) Next was a Japanese young man from Osaka, and was surprised that I could greet him in Japanese. Time was also not enough for a full gospel but a tract was handed to him.

5) Mira a UQ student from Taiwan. She is non religious but still appeared very open and receptive to the gospel .

6) Zinta a Pakistan girl coming here to do high school study. She seems to be a fair dinkum Muslim very familiar with Koran. Yet she is very open to the sharing of the full gospel even though her mind has been brainwashed to stick to the Islamic faith. All I tried to do is to explain who Jesus is and what has he done for the human kind.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday March 19th, 2025 from 1130-1230

I started earlier to day as it seems that I am the only one to do outreach today while other team mated are still not available. The results was still considered good, with two stand out divine encounters apart from some other shorter conversation because of bus arrival interruption.

First, I was led to approach an elderly man from PNG who claimed to be a Christian but ended up finding out a Mormon. The Spirit led me to identify with him as we both were a cancer patient but healed by God through intensive prayers. All I could do is to emphasize Jesus as our Savior who is the triune God on mission to restore the fallen human race and to bring glory back to God.

Next, I was led to approach Rolene, a local Anglican Aussie who had fond memory of Hong Kong connection through trade and tourism. Good rapport was built and he passed the check of assurance of salvation having 100% certainty because of his faith in Christ.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Mar 18, 2025 from 1030-1130

Johnny is yet to be back, So Hung continued to do solo outreach at Toowong at an earlier time than usual. The Bus stop were less crowded than the usual noon time. There were a group of 5 to 6 Mainlander students that I was not moved to approached as they tended to be avoidance especially when they have compatriot Chinese around that they do not want to be seen to appear receptive and open to gospel. Apart from the Mainlander groups, all other people groups are comparatively open and friendly for getting a chat. Recap were the three highlight conversations.

I was led to approach Harry from Bundaberg as he was nearest to the big group of Mainlanders. He was a bit shy but still polite and friendly enough to engage into a chat with me. He was from a Christian family, but upon checking his assurance of salvation, he is not sure at all even if he is a Christian. So I virtually has to share the full gospel to him once again which he was very appreciative and receptive to help him affirming his faith in Christ alone.

Then I turned around to chat with a Filipino lady who is a Griffith student coming to meet a friend in UQ. Her family was of Catholic background but she herself is non-religious. I was able to share her the nutshell of the gospel as her bus came pretty fast.

Then I was led to approach an Indian girl who studied engineering. She was friendly and open for gospel sharing and appeared also very receptive. Again time was not enough but just the nutshell of the gospel and with a tract.

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